Intentional Agency

Capacity to set and pursue goals via beliefs, desires, and intentions.

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HOT-3: Agency guided by a general belief-formation system, with strong disposition to update beliefs per monitoring outputs
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Indicator: consumer system that relies on 'real' tagged perceptions for rational action.
Robust Agency
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The ability to pursue goals via cognitive states and processes beyond minimal agency; includes intentional, reflective, and rational agency.
Reflective Agency
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Intentional agency plus ability to reflectively endorse one's own beliefs, desires, intentions.

cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edge

Entities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.

Intentional Actionconcept0.821
Central explanatory target: behavior constrained by prior intentions and contextual constraints that emerge from cognitive reorganization.
intentionalityconcept0.817
The capacity to have beliefs, desires, intentions; discussed in the context of AI and speech acts.
Agencyconcept0.799
Capacity for autonomous action; requires formal definition linking to selfhood, control, and sense of agency.
Individualized Agencyconcept0.788
Zaadnoordijk & Bayne 2020: The Origins of Intentional Agency (psyArXiv)concept0.781
Distinguished stimulus-elicited from endogenous intention in the origins of intentional agency
Sense of agencyconcept0.780
The subjective feeling of controlling one's actions.
intentional natureconcept0.773
The presence of arbitrary idea and image in design that distorts the unfolding process.
Rational Agencyconcept0.771
Reflective agency plus capacity to rationally assess beliefs, desires, intentions and adopt principles.